Name Samantha Harvey Role Author | Books The Wilderness | |
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Nominations Guardian First Book Award |
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Samantha Harvey (born 1975), is an English author. She completed the Bath Spa Creative Writing MA course in 2005, and has also completed a postgraduate course in philosophy and a PhD in Creative Writing. Her first novel The Wilderness (2009), is written from the point of view of man developing Alzheimer's disease., and describes through increasingly fractured prose the unravelling effect of the disease. Her second novel, All Is Song (2012), is a novel about moral and filial duty, and about the choice between questioning and conforming.. The author has described the novel as a loose, modern day reimagining of the life of Socrates .
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- Novels
- Nominations and prizes
- Translations
- References

Her third novel, Dear Thief, is a long letter from a woman to her absent friend, detailing the emotional fallout of a love triangle. The novel is said to be based on the Leonard Cohen song Famous Blue Raincoat . It was published in 2014 by Jonathan Cape. Her fourth novel is due to be published in March 2018.

Her short stories have appeared in Granta Magazine and on BBC Radio 4.

Harvey's novels have been considered for many prizes, including the Man Booker Prize, the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Orange Prize. In 2010 she was named one of the 12 best new British novelists by The Culture Show.

She is a Senior Lecturer on the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and a member of the Academy for the Rathbones Folio Prize. She was a member of the jury for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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Novels
Nominations and prizes
Translations
Harvey's novels have been published in the following translations: Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Portuguese and Romanian.